Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Volkov, Shulamit

Titel

THE ISOLATION OF INTEREST-GROUP POLITICS

Ist Teil von

• The Rise of Popular Antimodernism in Germany: The Urban Master Artisans, 1873-1896, 2015, p.237-265

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Economic difficulties and social stress were often experienced by small master artisans in Germany prior to, and during, the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, it was only as a result of the combined force of economic pressures, increased political friction, and an acute sense of insecurity, characteristic of the first phase of the Great Depression between 1873 and 1879, that a considerable portion of the small masters was effectively politicized. They then entered the political scene both as individuals, often newly enfranchised, and as an organized social group. While they were cautiously feeling the ground in this new territory, the political environment